From: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org (precious-things-digest) To: precious-things-digest@smoe.org Subject: precious-things-digest V4 #184 Reply-To: precious-things@smoe.org Sender: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-precious-things-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "precious-things-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. precious-things-digest Tuesday, June 22 1999 Volume 04 : Number 184 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: a jumble of info ["E.L Walker" ] Re: Anastasia [skh1@mindspring.com] Re: Could On My Tongue [skh1@mindspring.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:57:17 +0100 From: "E.L Walker" Subject: Re: a jumble of info > Has anyone here heard tori's version of if 6 was 9. Personally I though it > was pretty horrible (like when pianos try to be guitars???). Does anyone > know what they did to the piano (I am tempted here to say poor piano) to get > this kind of sound. Just wondering. > Thanks everyone (for bearing with me) Yup, I also find that sound a little irritating to the ears, and it's quite a relief when she gets to the "what child is this" bit- nice and gentle!!,.... you have to be prepared for that song! Squidgy ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:55:28 -0400 From: skh1@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Anastasia hi mandy... VenusFruit@aol.com wrote: > ... > but my question is: does anyone really know about anastasia.. about what > happened??? i'd appreciate any information they thought for a long time that she was a woman named Anna, who surfaced some time ago, and is not dead. by DNA testing, she was not Anastatsia Romanov, though she had family members convinced that she was by the details that she knew of the woman's life, and of the slaughter night... in the last 2 years they have recovered more bodies at the alleged burial site that they believe to the anastasia and another of the siblings. tori however says that she was visited by the spirit of anastasia, and that is how this song came to be written... (i am fascinated with the family, btw... if you get a chance to find the HBO special that was done 3-4 years ago called Rasputin, that will give you a lot of insight into the family and their deaths...) be well ~~kelley ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:49:21 -0400 From: skh1@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Could On My Tongue hi terry... Terry Ferrell wrote: > Okay seriously.........I was wondering what you guys thought that song is > about. in short, i think it's about codependent relationships (leave me with your borneo... i'll be wearing your tattoo.... don't stop now what you're doin my ugly one... you're already in circles and circles again...)... also, it has a recurrent theme of UtP, of being a woman who is loving and warm and supportive, among women who just want to climb and rip each other to shreds (all the girls here are freezing cold)... i have also wondered if this about a woman who has replaced her in a relationship (it won't be fair, if i hate her) this song and yes, anastasia, to me are among the most complex, painistically (did i make that up) speaking. they just bring down the house for me everytime i hear either of them... > .... about how she never really got searched for drugs and how > that was a good thing, and then she goes into playing COMT. So I was > wondering if the song is about doing drugs b/c you know you put acid on your > tongue (got a cloud sleeping on my tongue). she says that most of UtP was composed while she was tripping... it was meant to be a very obtuse and surrealistic work... be well ~~kelley ------------------------------ End of precious-things-digest V4 #184 *************************************